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Seniors 'Accept Blame' for
Environmental Damage
www.abc.net
Australia
August 30, 2007
Australia's seniors are challenging the Howard Government to back a plan for grandparents and students to work together on green projects, saying they want to make up for damaging the planet.
The National Seniors program will see elderly Australians from 124 senior citizen branches donate their time to help schools with a range of environmental topics.
The non-profit organisation's chairman, Everald Compton, says seniors accept they are to blame for the planet's deterioration.
"We believe that our generation have been very development-conscious and not conscious enough of what it did to the environment," he said.
"We don't think that it's irreparably damaged but we believe that we should spend our time doing something to make it better than we found it and we'd like to do that in partnership with our grandchildren."
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